An Infrastructure Fund
is a type of mutual fund established to mobilize funds from general and institutional investors for investment in Thailand's infrastructure projects widely beneficial to the general people. Infrastructure projects are essential and constructive for national development; however, they inevitably require a significant amount of investment. Infrastructure funds, therefore, ease the government's budgeting burden and public debts, and provide to the private sector an alternative fund raising scheme for the development of these infrastructure projects.
Infrastructure Funds may invest in the following 12 types of infrastructure projects:
- Railway or Pipeline Transportation
- Power plant
- Water supply
- Toll road/Express way or Concession Way
- Airfield or Airport
- Deep seaport
- Telecommunication or Telecommunication Related Infrastructure and Communications
- Alternative energy
- Water supply management or Irrigation
- Natural disaster preventive system including the alert and management systems to mitigate the in tensity of such natural disasters
- Waste management
- The infrastructure projects that mix with multi-infrastructures mention in 1 to 11